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This is the raw base of the new Dixyu Seici (rational/logic alphabet) writing system I'm developing for Sceistian. It's based on sound families (like the previous one), but this time the characters themselves are also visually related to each other.

This is the first draft and it's far from perfect. Many of the characters are way too complex to be comfortably written by hand, for example. Nevertheless, it'll serve as a starting point and logical base for upcoming releases.

True Come to think about it, the Latin alphabet is kind of a highly evolved featural script, considering it's roots that are in the pictogram-like Phoenician alphabet, where most of the letters depicted objects or animals and the sounds their names had in them.

That's what this chart is for, to have a rough logic to build the final script on. It'll probably look a lot different by the time I'm finished.

I like the shape of the letters and your little relationship wheels down at the botton. ^_^ The shapes aren't too complex for a typed form, and they look like they could be pretty easily simplified for handwriting, in my opinion. It'll be interesting to see what else you do with it.

Yeah, my goal is to find a way to create as simple, logical and easily memorable writing system as possible for Sceistian. That's why I tied their visual appearance to closely-related sounds. I really like the simplicity of the Latin alphabet, and will definitely strive to cut down on the amount of strokes each character needs. I don't know if more than 3 or 4 is justifiable anymore - to me the strokes after that start to be decorative only.

I'm an etymology nut, so to me it's important to have something concrete for the system to evolve from. You could say this is merely a wireframe at this point, and the final characters might look rather different from these. But they will be based on this chart, one way or another, and so their appearance can be explained by taking a look at it. Think of it as a way to add more depth and "history" to my conlang

The developments in the writing system will be closely tied to a full revision of the lexicon I'm going to do in the near future

Sounds like you've got a plan! I think etymology is interesting as well, so I'm looking forward to how this develops. It could go the other way and become more complex, like Chinese, or you could pare it down to something like, say, Ogham. It'll be neat to see the steps you take either way.